I have a M3 16GB Macbook Air coming today. I am assuming it will ship with Sequoia. Can it be downgraded to Sonoma?
Usually I wait till a .4 release to upgrade, but if Sequoia is great, maybe unnecessary to downgrade. Thanks!It *should* be able to because it's from a platform that shipped with Sonoma but...you never know. There could be something that prevents a downgrade.
Any particular reason why you want Sonoma? Sequoia has been great.
It’s not “supported” but it should run. You might not get tech support from Apple on Sonoma.
If it ships with Sonoma, it's supported.M3 Airs were released with Sonoma, how is it not supported?
If it ships with Sonoma, it's supported.
If it ships with Sequoia, then downgrading isn't officially supported (even though earlier M3s ran fine on Sonoma).
This is well-established policy; e.g. some MacBook Pro 2012s were sold for over 4 years. The earliest ones shipped with Mountain Lion and later with Mavericks, Yosemite, and El Capitan... maybe even Sierra, not sure? Regardless - Apple wouldn't assist with installing anything earlier than it actually shipped with, even though it "would run" earlier versions.